May 16, 2013

Vanity Fair's Frank Crowninshield on how writers see editors

"All editors live on flattery. They can be bought or bribed—like so many aldermen or critics.... They are malingerers. They are criminals. There is, in short, something almost slimy and shuddery about the horror of them." — Frank Crowninshield, editor of Vanity Fair magazine, on how writers view editors, 1916.